Deputy for the law: solving the problem of Kirkuk drastically lies in the application of Article [140]

Deputy for the law: solving the problem of Kirkuk drastically lies in the application of Article [140]

Thursday, July 18, 2013 06:15

Deputy for the law: solving the problem of Kirkuk drastically lies in the application of Article [140] [Baghdad where]

MP for state law Mohammed Chihod the solve the problem between Baghdad and Erbil on Kirkuk is the application of Article 140 of the Constitution.

Male Chihod told all of Iraq [where] today that “the issue of resolving differences between Kirkuk and the Kurdistan region strategically important and radical solution to him is the application of Article 140 of the Constitution.”

He added that “there are several steps in Article 140 of the normalization and census and referendum and thus radically solve problems applying the steps of Article 140 of the Constitution.”

It is noteworthy that the Commission on Article 140 was formed in 2007 and its mission overseeing the normalization of the situation in Kirkuk and other disputed territories and pay compensation to the evacuees and expatriates, and Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki had announced during his visit to the Kurdistan region from the agreement regarding Article 140 of the Constitution with the regional president Massoud Barzani.

Article 140 of the Iraqi Constitution on the normalization of the situation in the province of Kirkuk and disputed areas in other provinces such as Nineveh and Diyala, and defined period of time ended in the atheist and the thirtieth of December 2007 and left for the people of those areas freedom of self-determination of both survival and independent administrative unit or attached Kurdistan Region of Iraq through the organization of a referendum, but the obstacles many have led to delay implementation of some of the main items in the above-mentioned article for reasons politicians say the Kurds as political, while Baghdad says that the delay is deliberate, knowing that he had the ministerial committee competent to apply Article, that carried out some paragraphs, such as compensation for those affected, have not been implemented the most important of which is the referendum on the fate of the city. ended

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